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Edwin JagerIconometer #47MoMA FugueIconometer #47 is titled, MoMA Fugue,and it exemplifies how I use
Iconometer as a tool for investigation
and experimentation. I had the opportunity to create this piece while I was the
Visiting Artist at the Paper Fox Printmaking Workshop at Lawrence University in
Appleton, Wisconsin.

If you’re in the Appleton, Wisconsin area any time before May 7, 2017, a
limited-edition version of this issue is on view as part of the “Selectionsfrom the Paper Fox Printmaking Collection” exhibition at Lawrence University’s
Wriston Art Center Galleries. Iconometer #47 is a serigraph that exists in
two important states: as a small edition of signed and numbered prints and trimmed and folded to become an issue of Iconometer.

Key inspiration for this issue can be found
in the research for my Liquid into My
Skin project. It’s a series of installation and sculptural works that assemble
photographic transparencies into visual mosaics. I’ll go into this project in
more detail…

If you arrived here from my website, the i48 video or
elsewhere on the internet, you might want to read a physical copy of Iconometer 48 first. You can get a copy
from my storenvy shop here:

http://mynameizedwin.storenvy.com/products/19086370-iconometer-48-an-artists-book-by-edwin-jager You can virtually read Iconometer 48 here: https://vimeo.com/176554604 Maybe you have access to the analog version, but clicked on
the QR code, watched the video and want to keep your experience virtual. If so,
you’re ready to read on! Or, you have read the printed version and you’re ready to
learn more. Please proceed with your chosen method of delivery. Introduction Early in 2015, I received a package in the mail from my
mentor, Wendy Cain who retired in June 2015, from teaching printmaking and
papermaking at the Ontario College of Art, Ontario College of Art and
Design, Ontario College of Art and Design Univers…